Posted on 09/30/2020 3:23:02 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) approval of the GE9X follows thousands of hours of testing, and clears the engine for life aboard the world’s largest twin-engine aircraft, the Boeing 777X.
Before that maiden flight even took place, GE Aviation said it had hundreds of orders on the books from a range of customers in the aviation space, but its primary focus has been the forthcoming family of wide-body planes from Boeing. Developed to power these next-generation 777X passenger jets
The GE9X engine itself is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage, and is 10 percent more efficient than the GE90 engine used to power Boeing’s current generation of 777s. It is also claimed to offer five percent better fuel consumption efficiency than any other engine in its class, and also produce less smog-causing emissions.
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The tighter the sweater?
the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.
The bigger the doctor, the bigger the bill.
I wonder if these engines will be found on non stop flights from Sydney to JFK.
Next question: Is Boeing moving their facilities out of Seattle/Washington state???
thats a big bird scoop
otherwise, cool we’re still making them better
We must, we must
we must increase our bust!
We must, we must
we must increase our bust!
The bigger the better the tighter the sweater the boys are depending on us! We must...
My wife was forced to sing this in gym class about 50 years ago.
how many 777s are in Victorville
just curious
If it ain’t wind or solar...................
Sucks up schools.
Wow...that’s a beauty.
In their unrelenting lust for technology to steal, China has targeted all of USA jet engine tech as a priority for all their aircrafts, for both military and civilian. So these guys better watch out and have very good I.T. security and personnel security screening.
That is astonishing!
“My wife was forced to sing this in gym class about 50 years ago”
Sounds like good a wedding vow.
“Next question: Is Boeing moving their facilities out of Seattle/Washington state???”
The 787 seems to be closing down in Washington and moving to Charleston where some of the 787’s were already made.
It was reported in WSJ today that the 787 production will be consolidated in SC from Everett.
That leaves 737/757/777 and sundry other activities (Phantom Works, P8, maintenance, the Boeing Field facility) .
That inboard 9X could eat a few of those outboard engines for breakfast!
1970?
I would have guessed 1930’s or 40’s.
Interesting.
Those are now the APUs. Maybe:)
Each one of these has more that 100,000 lbs of thrust and is more efficient than the current 777 engines. If a Boeing 747 (with a nominal empty weight of 404,600lbs) had four of these, it could conceivably go straight up!
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